2016 News Archive

Sesame Workshop, the organization behind Sesame Street, selects Georgetown and Children’s National Health System researchers to lead an evaluation of an initiative designed to reduce stigma and build understanding about autism spectrum disorder.

Georgetown recognizes faculty members and academic professionals for their 20 years of service as well as distinguished donors who support the university’s academic enterprise during the 2016 Spring Faculty Convocation.

The Leonsis Family Entrepreneurship Prize will provide financial support to Georgetown students and recent alumni launching or preparing to launch new businesses that address pressing problems in today's world.

A series of 10-minute plays with a medical bent by students, faculty and staff across all campuses was recently performed at the School of Medicine's newly renovated W. Proctor Harvey Clinical Amphitheater.

Fourteen teams of students from across campus pitch ideas designed to help the homeless, immigrants and more in a competition sponsored by the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Global Social Enterprise Initiative.

Veteran communications strategist Jon Haber, an instructor for the public relations and corporate communications program, says presidential primary voters are angry, fearful and frustrated, and they now have more ways to tweet, post, share and disseminate their feelings.